Alan Perlis Quotes
16 Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
Quotes to Explore
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
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My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
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You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
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We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
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My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
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When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
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Those who call us terrorists wish to prevent world public opinion from discovering the truth about us and from seeing the justice on our faces. They seek to bide the terrorism and tyranny of their acts, and our own posture of self-defence.
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I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and balances.
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Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.
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'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.
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Walk in Christ's light daily through fidelity to personal and liturgical prayer, nourished by meditation on the inspired word of God.. Make the daily celebration of the Eucharist the center of your life.
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16 Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
